Definition of Chylify

1. v. t. & i. To make chyle of; to be converted into chyle.

Definition of Chylify

1. Verb. (biochemistry transitive) To make chyle of. ¹

2. Verb. (biochemistry intransitive) To be converted into chyle. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Chylify

1. to produce chyle [v CHYLIFIED, CHYLIFYING, CHYLIFIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chylify

chyle cyst
chyle peritonitis
chyle vessel
chyles
chylidrosis
chylifaction
chylifactive
chylifactory
chyliferous
chylific
chylification
chylified
chylifies
chyliform
chyliform ascites
chylify (current term)
chylifying
chylo-
chylocaulous
chylocyst
chylomediastinum
chylomicron
chylomicron retention disease
chylomicronaemia
chylomicrons
chylopericarditis
chylopericardium
chyloperitoneum

Literary usage of Chylify

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1841)
"... could devour and chylify both you and them ? And so they can; for they are all Goliaths, save a few poor mannikins of dwarfish stature and slender frame ..."

2. Advent of Empire by Morrison Isaac Swift (1900)
"... found to be divine In company with royal swine; What easily dissolves a stone Can chylify a small backbone. I once defined a Yankee thus: A Freeman ..."

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